These are some thank you letters from students who received new shoes from the Project 680 Foot Drive recently. These students are documented as homeless by the FCUSD. Thank you everyone for your support and for making this happen. A very special thank you to Rancho Cordova Rotary for providing $4,000 toward the shoe drive. This year we provided more shoes for students than ever before.
The Rancho Cordova Rotary Club donated $4,000 toward the Project 680 Shoe Drive this year. Additionally, the Inner Wheel Club in Rancho Cordova stepped up with a $400 donation too (Inner Wheel is comprised of allstar women of Rotary). We are so appreciative to have had such such support from Rotary and Inner Wheel. Along with the donations from so many others during the Foot Drive, we broke the record for the number of students invited to the Shoe Event. Thank you to Rotary President Rick Blakeman and so many Rotarians who donated money as well as volunteered hours of service to pull off a successful shoe event recently.
We shared a few weeks back how a nine-year old named Anabelle decided to ask her family and friends for underwear for homeless kids in lieu of birthday gifts. Well, her birthday fiesta took place yesterday and we are so excited to announce that Anabelle and her friends/family collected a total of 262 pairs of underwear (35 packages). Isn’t that amazing??
Thank you so much to all who participated in this effort. Fantastic job to Anabelle and friends and family!! Thank you for your generosity and for going out of your way to bless local homeless students in the FCUSD. You’ve made a significant contribution to the underwear drive too!!
Charlene Hunt and Trish Antonetti say thank you to Tyson & Dawn for their generosity. In lieu of wedding gifts, Tyson & Dawn asked their wedding guests to contribute to Project 680 instead. Well over $1,000 was donated to Project 680. Thank you so much Tyson & Dawn and their altruistic guests.
* filmed on a myTouch 4G phone by RL and edited in Sony Vegas.
Tonight we had a team of folks together to handle some logisitcs for the beginning of the Project 680 Shoe Drive, and we took a quick video to say THANK YOU to everyone for your amazing support, encouragement, and partnership during the Project 680 Hoody Drive.
We are very pleased to announce that the Project 680 team (all of us) collected 735 hoodies!!! Yes, that’s right!!! Our goal of 680 hoodies was blown out of the water by local residents, churches, businesses, and organizations that took part in this tremendous effort. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We sincerely appreciate your intentional compassion and for carrying the vision in your heart to meet some of the basic needs of homeless students. Who is Project 680? You are.
My brother recently let me know about someone he heard of named Betty Londergan. Betty inherited some money and she started something called What Gives 365 Project. In short, Betty is giving away $100 every day to causes she chooses. And she’s blogging about it.
“This is all my money. It comes from what my dad left each one of us kids when he died, and I can’t think of a single thing my mom would have loved more than to see me giving it away to worthy causes. (However, my dad would undoubtedly say that I need to get my head examined.)”
Why am I bringing this up? I am very pleased to announce that Betty donated $100 to Project 680. Awesome news, huh? Read Betty’s post yesterday entitled “Underwear, Socks, Shoes“.
What do you think of this and what Betty is doing?
